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FREDERICK HEss, .0E BALTIMORE, MAEYLAND. Letters Patent No. 64,867, mamy21, 1867,

IMPROVEMENT 'IN FASTBNINGS FOR SHIRT-GOLLARS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERNz` Be it known that I; FREDERICK HESS, ofBaltimore, in the county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for PaperShirt-Collars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact'description of the same, referencel being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which*-Figure 1 represents a view of a collar with the fastenings by which itis secured to the buttons of the-shirt, in place? Figure '2 represents afront view of one of the fastenings detached from the collar; and

Figure 3 represents a rear view of the same. 1

Figure 4 represents a view of an instrument for placing'or threading theelastic cord inthe eye of the fastening.

'Similar letters of reference, where they occur in the sepa-rategures,denote like parts in all ofthe drawings.

I am aware that several kinds of paper-collar fastenings have been used,and among them an elastic cord and hook, the hook taking into a holemade in the paper, but from the fragile nature of the fabric of whichsuch collars are made such fastenings soon tear lout and become useless.

i My invention consists in a paper-collar fastener, composed of a metalplate or disk, having an eye on its face, through and in which a loop ofan elfastic cord is fastened, and an eye on its.- under side to passthrough the hole in the collar, andthen secured to the collar by a ringor its equivalent.

To enable others'skillod in the art to make and use my'invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

a represents a metal plate, which may be made of any known metal, and ofany suitable shape, form, or size, and plain or ornamented. Upon theface of this plate there is'an eye, c, through which a loop, e, of apiece of elastic cord is passed, and in which it is held by a clip, z',on the cord, or by knots, or both. On the back ofthe plate o'r button athere is also an eye, n, which is long enough to pass into and throughthe button or eyelethole of the collar, and a ring, m, orits equivalentbar or pin, inserted in said eye to hold the fastening to the collar,and at the same time make' it easy to be detached when the collar istaken off and soiled or thrown away, so that the fastening may bere-used on other collars. An' instrument, o, iig. 4, may be sent withthe fastenings for threading the elastic cord into the eye of the buttonwhen a new cord or loop is required. The hook of this instrumentispassed through'the eye c and the loop or cord passed over said hook;the instrument is then drawn back, bringing the loop or cord with it.The clip or knot on the end of the loop or cord prevents that end fromcoming through the eye. j i

Paper collars that can be united to the shirt by a fastening that willnot tear out of the fabric arecapable of being worn much longer, as theycan be put on and taken off easily, whilst, with a common button-hole asa fastening, the collar is often ruined beforeit is worn at all.

Having thus fully described my papes-collar fastener, what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi. y

The fastener, composed of a plate with an eye on each side of it, onefor holding'an elastic loop to fasten the collar tothe shirt, the otherto hold a ring to secure the fastening to the collar, as described.

gf i t FREDERICK HEas. Witnesses:

A. B. SroeenroN, H. Scno'rrns.

